It says: E: Unable to find a source package for nautilus Do I need to add some repository? I tried adding: ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 , ppa:ricotz/stating and ppa:ricotz/testing but no result! Did you install it in Ubuntu 12.04?
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Saurav KumarSep 12 '13 at 12:07

@blade19899: I don't know how did they install in Ubuntu 12.04. The download they are providing is nothing but the binary package which I've already used to install it.. :(
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Saurav KumarSep 12 '13 at 13:24

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You can try to upgrade several important packages (gtk, glib, etc.) from the ricotz/testing ppa, then compile Nautilus 3.6 from source.

NOTE: Due to you are going to upgrade several important packages of your system, I strongly recommend to do this in a Virtual Machine or in a Test Machine only for testing purposes to see is everything is OK.

Make sure you have enable the "Source code repository"

In the Menu Bar choose Edit -> Software Sources. Click to enable "Source code repository".
Just in case I use the "Main Server" to Download.

Then..

sudo apt-get update

1) Open a Terminal and install the following packages.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libtracker-sparql-0.14-dev wget

2) Install build dependencies.

sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus

3) Add ricotz ppa and upgrade the system.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

4) Trash-Full icon in nautilus-places.

Nautilus 3.6.3 use the following icon for the trash-full (user-trash-full-symbolic.svg), not present by default in Ubuntu 12.04. You can grab the icon from Ubuntu 13.04 to put it in /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/status/ directory.

You are genius.. :D Thanks you so much.. I successfully installed nautilus 3.6.x. I got some unmet dependencies while executing sudo apt-get build-dep nautilus but that was not a problem, I solved it using Synaptic and after that everything runs so smoothly.. Thanks a ton to you.. :D
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Saurav KumarOct 6 '13 at 12:18

Glad to help!.. but remember I strongly recommend only for testing purposes..due to the critical packages upgraded in your system.
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Roman RaguetOct 6 '13 at 12:20

@SauravKumar does nautilus3.6.x work well in ubuntu12.04 ? I wanna install too.
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DavidJan 16 '14 at 8:37